The Winter Nosegay Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL| What Nature alas has denied | A |
| To the delicate growth of our isle | B |
| Art has in a measure supplied | A |
| And winter is deck d with a smile | B |
| See Mary what beauties I bring | C |
| From the shelter of that sunny shed | D |
| Where the flowers have the charms of the spring | C |
| Though abroad they are frozen and dead | D |
| - | |
| 'Tis a bower of Arcadian sweets | E |
| Where Flora is still in her prime | F |
| A fortress to which she retreats | E |
| From the cruel assaults of the clime | F |
| While earth wears a mantle of snow | G |
| These pinks are as fresh and as gay | H |
| As the fairest and sweetest that blow | G |
| On the beautiful bosom of May | H |
| - | |
| See how they have safely survived | I |
| The frowns of a sky so severe | J |
| Such Mary s true love that has lived | I |
| Through many a turbulent year | J |
| The charms of the late blowing rose | K |
| Seem graced with a livelier hue | L |
| And the winter of sorrow best shows | K |
| The truth of a friend such as you | L |
William Cowper
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